The American Presidents–Washington to Lincoln

Who were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and the rest of the first 16 US presidents, what did they do, and what do they hope history has forgotten? | Continue reading


@waitbutwhy.com | 5 years ago

How to Hop on an Asteroid

Making tiny rovers move around in low gravity requires some serious ingenuity | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 5 years ago

The Ventura’s West Village Loft

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@atelierdore.com | 5 years ago

Engineer Your Organization

As Jim Collins pointed out in “Built To Last”, companies that want to be successful over a long period of time need to engineer their organization so that it consistently produces great results wit… | Continue reading


@the-nerd-manager.com | 5 years ago

A look at 'Ribbons of Justice'

EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City. | Continue reading


@evgrieve.com | 5 years ago

Tom Jolly on Twitter

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@mobile.twitter.com | 5 years ago

Hand-optimized interpreter loop in LuaJIT2 (2011)

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@web.archive.org | 5 years ago

More details on the anti-SpaceX smear campaign

Boeing and SpaceX are competing for billions of dollars in NASA contracts to launch astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Boeing appears to be using a Washington public-relations firm that some evidence suggests planted an opinion piece critical of SpaceX in US … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

The great tea robbery (2009)

In the likely event that you are at this very moment drinking tea, you might care to give a nod to the memory of a tall and lean Scotsman by the name of Robert Fortune. | Continue reading


@dailymail.co.uk | 5 years ago

Psycho Pass (Plot)

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@en.wikipedia.org | 5 years ago

Dijkstra's in Disguise: 3 algorithms independently discovered a fundamental

You can find a PDF version of this blog post here . A weighted graph is a data structure consisting of some vertices and edges, and each... | Continue reading


@blog.evjang.com | 5 years ago

A simple guide for how to write unit tests for smart contracts

Good unit tests are critical when it comes to smart contract development. In fact, given smart contracts are immutable and often… | Continue reading


@blog.upstate.agency | 5 years ago

Amazon staff said to be taking bribes to leak data

Often the biggest problem is not the threat of external hackers, but rather internal staff to whom you have granted access to sensitive data and who might be tempted to exploit it for financial gain. | Continue reading


@grahamcluley.com | 5 years ago

Inaugurata la nuova sede CRI di Spoleto

Il Presidente regionale della CRI Paolo Scura:”Confermiamo il nostro impegno per Spoleto” | Il Sindaco de Augustinis:”Importante il chiarimento arrivato dal vertice regionale della CRI. Nei prossimi giorni ci incontreremo per ragionare insieme sul da farsi”   Inaugurata questa ma … | Continue reading


@comunespoleto.gov.it | 5 years ago

Detachable Google Pixel Slate Chromebook Leaks Ahead of Launch

Thanks to leaked renders, we can now have a look at the detachable Google Pixel Slate, Google's Chrome OS tablet successor to the Google Pixelbook. | Continue reading


@xda-developers.com | 5 years ago

Washington DC Metro (WMATA) Brand and Style Guidelines [pdf]

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@wmata.com | 5 years ago

Fully Diluted Market Value

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@avc.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: CoinMarketBook – CoinMarketCap, but with a different metric

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@coinmarketbook.cc | 5 years ago

12 Guidelines for A/B Testing

When I was working at Etsy, I benefited from a very robust A/B testing system. Etsy had been doing A/B testing for more than 6 years. By the time I left, Etsy’s in-house experimentation system, called Catapult, had more than 5 data engineers working on it full-time. Every morning … | Continue reading


@hookedondata.org | 5 years ago

Investigation of insider attacks with computer forensics

Cyber-attacks do not always originate from outside of the target organisation. Veritably around twenty-five percent of all data breaches occur from the inside, from employees or trusted individuals within the organisation (TechBeacon, 2018). Employees that Read more… | Continue reading


@ao.gl | 5 years ago

Show HN: A haiku a day for the rest of my life

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@haiku.ist | 5 years ago

A timing attack with CSS selectors and JavaScript

Have you ever encountered a website that runs `jQuery(location.hash)`? It turns out this allows you to perform a powerful timing attack that can extract almost any secret from the HTML. | Continue reading


@blog.sheddow.xyz | 5 years ago

US Median Household Income reaches a new record (inflation-adjusted)

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@politicalcalculations.blogspot.com | 5 years ago

The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)

Before Risk, before Dungeons & Dragons, before Magic: The Gathering, there was Diplomacy. One writer enters international competition to play the world-conquering game that redefines what it me… | Continue reading


@grantland.com | 5 years ago

Anatomy of a Hybrid Solution

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@devops.com | 5 years ago

Jigsaw – The Laravel Static Site Generator

My interview with Keith Damiani, Senior Developer at Tighten and Lead Developer on the Jigsaw project. | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 5 years ago

A fist in search of a face

If you want to cherry pick to make an argument, no doubt, you'll be able to find some cherries. And if you want to pick a fight, no doubt you'll find someone (or something) to have a figh… | Continue reading


@seths.blog | 5 years ago

The Second Battle of Passchendaele

Of course, officially speaking there was never a First Battle of Passchendaele but most of us are aware that in 1917 in the space of 3 months at the cost of 80,000 dead the British advanced from ju… | Continue reading


@samizdata.net | 5 years ago

Russia's disinformation efforts

Look how Russian information warfare works: | Continue reading


@threader.app | 5 years ago

Hire by Google

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@hire.google.com | 5 years ago

How Does an Intel Processor Boot

When we switch on a computer, it goes through a series of steps before it is able to load the operating system. In this post we will see how a typical x86 processor boots. This is a very complex an… | Continue reading


@binarydebt.wordpress.com | 5 years ago

Show HN: 310 BTC Challenge

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@bitcoinchallenge.codes | 5 years ago

Why Banksy is a genius

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@memex.naughtons.org | 5 years ago

Pinterest Unlocks Influencer Marketing Platform to Third-Party Platforms

Pinterest Unlocks Content Marketing to Third-Party Influencer Marketing Platforms. It has reached 250 million users per month and most probably crossing that mark. | Continue reading


@vitsmuni.com | 5 years ago

Debian environments for every architecture with QEMU

This article discusses producing Debian filesystems for multiple architectures, if you just want to download the actual tarballs, they can… | Continue reading


@headmelted.com | 5 years ago

Cheepo – For all you cheepos out there who want to save some #beermoney

Cheepo offers great deals to people who are too cheap to pay the full price. This means saving more #beermoney for yourself. Contains a curated list of coupons from the hottest startups! | Continue reading


@cheepo.co | 5 years ago

Recovering Emotions After 24 Years on Antidepressants

Weaning off the drugs was scary at first, but I now feel alive, and I have emotions, both good and bad. I am grateful to have all of them. | Continue reading


@madinamerica.com | 5 years ago

Banksy on Instagram: “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge”

1.1m Likes, 60.5k Comments - Banksy (@banksy) on Instagram: “."The urge to destroy is also a creative urge"- Picasso” | Continue reading


@instagram.com | 5 years ago

How My Newsletter Went from 0 to 10 Subscribers

If you’ve been following me like Medium says you are, then you’re more interested in what I’m doing than I am. That’s fine. It’s hard for… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Stalk your boss timeline on GitHub

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@githubtimeline.xyz | 5 years ago

Anaconda now packages CUDA and cuDNN libraries for Deep Learning

Get started with TensorFlow in Anaconda Distribution. | Continue reading


@anaconda.com | 5 years ago

The Trump circus

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@memex.naughtons.org | 5 years ago

Scientists traced signals from first stars to 180M years after the Big Bang

Scientists have traced the signals to just 180 million years after the Big Bang, making the detection the earliest evidence of hydrogen yet observed. | Continue reading


@thesurg.com | 5 years ago

An absorption profile centred at 78 megahertz in the sky-averaged spectrum

The 21-cm absorption profile is detected in the sky-averaged radio spectrum, but is much stronger than predicted, suggesting that the primordial gas might have been cooler than predicted. | Continue reading


@nature.com | 5 years ago

Deep Tech Cryptos Can Protect Your Portfolio

Deep technology companies have staying power. The have revolutionary technical solutions that redefine or create new markets. Medical… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

The Bazaar of Data

Have you ever been to the Bazaar*? It is an endless oriental market that you can stroll around for days finding something new around every… | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 5 years ago

Thanksgiving 2018 Thanks

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@rolandtanglao.com | 5 years ago

What's a senior engineer's job?

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@jvns.ca | 5 years ago